Senior Data Analytics Specialist - Operations na Yarra Valley Water

Position overview

• Permanent, Full-Time opportunity
• True hybrid working – work from home and our Mitcham office
• $166,650 per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation

About us
We’re on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We’re one of Australia’s largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria’s population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you’ll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.

The role
We’re looking for a Senior Data Analytics Specialist – Operations who brings advanced, hands-on experience with Power BI and deep expertise in Semantic Modelling, DAX, and modern data visualization frameworks.

In this pivotal role, you’ll bridge analytics, reporting, and collaboration with both business and technical stakeholders, ensuring that insights are accurate, timely, and actionable. You will work closely with business stakeholders and data engineering teams to ensure reporting solutions are built on governed, high-quality, and scalable data pipelines.

As part of the Operations team, you’ll take ownership of the ongoing health, reliability, and performance of our enterprise reporting environment. This includes monitoring and ensuring report and data pipeline refreshes, managing and prioritizing items in the EDA service queue, and efficiently troubleshooting or resolving incidents. You will also drive continuous improvement through enhancing and optimizing reports, improving data model performance, and supporting BAU activities such as dataset maintenance, access governance, and version control.

In addition to operational support, the role will involve new report and dashboard development as part of enhancement work, continuous improvement initiatives, or issue remediation. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Power BI solutions that deliver trusted, high-quality insights aligned with business needs.

Experience with modern data platforms such as Azure Databricks is highly valued, enabling you to contribute to data transformations and the ongoing enhancement of our enterprise analytics ecosystem.

Your key responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust enterprise semantic models that support advanced analytics, operational reporting, and self-service capabilities.
• Translate complex business processes and requirements into functional specifications and scalable data models that align with enterprise architecture, governance, and performance frameworks.
• Develop semantic models and measures optimized for performance, usability, and security — including the implementation of row-level security and other access controls.
• Create impactful dashboards and data visualizations that deliver actionable insights and enable data-driven decision-making across business stakeholders.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to data governance, information management, and IT security policies, with comprehensive documentation following approved project methodologies and templates.
• Monitor and manage the performance, reliability, and refresh status of reports, datasets, and data pipelines to ensure seamless daily operations.
• Oversee and prioritize items in the EDA service queue, addressing incidents, troubleshooting refresh or performance failures, and implementing effective resolutions.
• Drive continuous improvement through enhancements to existing reports and data models, ensuring scalability, consistency, and alignment with evolving business needs.
• Design, develop, and optimize modern data pipelines and transformations using Azure Databricks (PySpark) and related tools to ensure scalable, high-quality data delivery and integration.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and data engineering teams to maintain governed, high-performing, and future-ready analytics solutions across the enterprise environment.

What we’re looking for

• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise-grade, self-service dashboards and reports using Power BI, with a focus on usability, performance, and data storytelling.
• Expertise in Power BI semantic modelling, including DAX, Power Query, and advanced visualization frameworks such as the 3-30-300 rule to tailor insights for diverse audience needs.
• Skilled in translating complex business requirements into compelling data visualisations, KPIs, and actionable insights, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Proven track record in Power BI performance optimisation, leveraging tools such as Tabular Editor, DAX Studio, and ALM Toolkit for model tuning and deployment efficiency.
• Experience in maintaining and optimising Power BI semantic models, datasets, and dataflows, with integration capabilities across Azure Databricks and other cloud data platforms.
• Strong proficiency in SQL for data extraction, transformation, validation, and preparation for reporting use cases.
• Adept at managing operational reporting environments, including monitoring data refreshes, ensuring report reliability, and maintaining data integrity.
• Delivered effective training and enablement sessions to boost organisational BI tool adoption and self-service reporting capabilities.
• Collaborative communicator, skilled at engaging business stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs) to define KPIs, gather requirements, and co-create valuable reporting solutions.
• Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
  

To view the full position description, click HERE.

Why Yarra Valley Water?
We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow – both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

• $166,650 per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation
• Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
• Free and secure on-site parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office
• 14 weeks paid leave parental leave
• 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, wellbeing, mental health, menstrual or menopause
• Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE.

Did you know?
Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to apply
Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume. 
Closing date: Thursday 30^th October 2025
This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds. If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please call 03 9872 2542 or email [email protected]. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email [email protected].

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.